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  • Coloring the Gem City: Redlining and the Legacy of Discriminatory Housing in Dayton, Ohio 1900-Present

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    Emily Sherwood

    Eric Rhodes (History, Class of 2016, Antioch College) “In 1988, Douglas Massey found the housing patterns in Dayton and its suburbs to be the third most racially segregated among the fifty largest metropolitain areas in the United States. According to Massey, the metropolitan areas with higher levels of racial segregation than Dayton were Cleveland, Ohio,…

  • The Korean War Memory Tour: More Than Just A Public History Road Trip

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    Emily Sherwood

    Levi Fox (Ph.D. Student in Public History, Temple University) The Korean War Memory Tour is a digital-hybrid project that I started in May of 2015 in preparation for a dissertation research trip. The centerpiece of the project is a WordPress blog that I’ve used to share my findings state-by-state on public memory of the so-called…

  • Ab Urbe Ef icta: Reconstructing Livy’s Rome

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    Emily Sherwood

    Haley Tilt (Classics, Class of 2016, Reed College) The works of the Roman historian Livy describe monuments that stood intact, monuments lost, and monuments forever altered by Rome’s changing political landscape. Using modern mapping and visualization technology, I have designed and implemented a website that allows users to visualize these monuments­­present and absent­­that Livy described and historicized. The website…

  • Solution Based Press Freedom Project

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    Emily Sherwood

    Ian Morse (Lafayette College) Current press freedom indices conflate myriad problems and measures into single values. When searching for solutions to press freedom violations, believing that all countries suffer from similar afflictions is counterproductive. I approached this project in search of solution-oriented measures that could suggest which political, legal, economic, and social factors had the…

  • Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series

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    Emily Sherwood

    Laura Lujan (Bucknell University) The Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series is a public history project in which Bucknell University students discover and unfold the stories of Susquehanna River Valley communities in a 26-minute documentary film. The first documentary in the series, “Utopian Dreams,” will be broadcast by public television station, WVIA. The students involved…